Stephen Hawking thinks computers may surpass human intelligence and take over the world. This view is based on the ideology that all aspects of human mentality will eventually be realised by a program running on a suitable compu...

All individual members of The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour have a personal subscription to the Taylor Francis journal Connection Science as part of their membership.
How to Acce...

AISB Committee member and Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, Dr Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie was interviewed by the BBC (in Farsi) along with his colleague Mohammad Ali Javaheri Javid on the 6 November 2014. He was a...

After 2 hours of judging at Bletchley Park, 'Rose' by Bruce Wilcox was declared the winner of the Loebner Prize 2014, held in conjunction with the AISB. The event was well attended, film live by Sky News and the special guest jud...

The AISB Convention is an annual conference covering the range of AI and Cognitive Science, organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour. The 2015 Convention will be held at the Uni...

AISB Committee member, and Philosophy Programme Director and Lecturer, Dr Yasemin J. Erden interviewed for the BBC on 29 October 2013. Speaking on the Today programme for BBC Radio 4, as well as the Business Report for BBC world N...

Mark Bishop, Chair of the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, appeared on Newsnight to discuss the ethics of ‘killer robots’. He was approached to give his view on a report raising questions on the et...

The AISB has launched a YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AISBTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/AISBTube).
The channel currently holds a number of videos from the AISB 2010 Convention. Videos include the AISB round t...

PhD student position on collective action, THE NETHERLANDS

The project is on network effects on the outbreak and volatility of collective action -- as for example
revolutions, spread of rumours and diseases, marketing, sentiment dynamics in financial markets. The
candidate should have a background in applied mathematics or mathematical economics, ideally in dynamic
systems or network theory, and should have some experience in programming. Further needed skills will be
acquired during the PhD programme of our institutes.
Starting date: October 2011 at the latest. Deadline for applications is 15 May 2011.
For more information, see
http://staff.feweb.vu.nl/ilindner/PhD%20project%20Cascade%20Dynamics%20on%20Interaction%20Networks.pdf